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WEARISH

Definitions: WEARISH

WEARISH

Adjective

1. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.

2. Weak; withered; shrunk.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WEARISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Wearish \Wear"ish\, adjective. [Etymology uncertain, but perhaps akin to weary.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: WEARISH

English words defined with "WEARISH": Weerish. (references)

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Rhyming with "WEARISH"

Words rhyming with "WEARISH" (pronounced 'Wear"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WEARISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: washier.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-r-s-w"

-1 letter: ashier, hawser, rawish, rewash, washer, wisher.

-2 letters: arise, hairs, hares, hawse, hears, heirs, hires, raise, resaw, rheas, sawer, serai, sewar, share, shear, shier, shire, shrew, sware, swear, wairs, wares, wears, weirs, whirs, wires, wiser, wisha, wries.

-3 letters: airs, ares, arse, awes, ears, eras, haes, hair, hare, haws, hear, heir, hers, hews, hies, hire.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-r-s-w"
 

+1 letter: dishware, haywires, rawhides, waterish.

 

+2 letters: dishwares, dishwater, hardwires, rewashing, shadowier, swarthier, wirehairs, wrathiest.

 

+3 letters: chinawares, crawfished, crawfishes, dishwasher, dishwaters, handwrites, prewashing, rainwashed, rainwashes, swarthiest, sweatshirt, thwartwise, wardenship, washateria, washeteria, watchcries.

 

+4 letters: brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashes, breadthwise, dishwashers, fisherwoman, headwaiters, schwarmerei, scrimshawed, stewardship, swarthiness, sweatshirts, wardenships, warehousing, washaterias, washeterias, weatherings, weatherizes, wharfingers, wheelchairs, whitebeards, whiteboards, whitewasher.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WEARISH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 45 41 52 49 53 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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